Sacrifices needed

“… And I want my scalps!”

Mr Monti, starting today an eight days tour in Asia looking for investments in our Country, said he feels the burden of taking not easy decisions about the labour market’s reform dictated by the economic crisis. Italians will feel the burden of those decisions for many years to come. The idea repeated ad nauseam is that a reform is essential to overcome the crisis: Europe asks us and, more important, Markets too. According to the Italian government easier dismissals will mean more foreign investments and lots of industries, not at all afraid of high taxation or intrusion of mafia and corruption into the Country economy, will flock here to open new industrial plants. What about the opposition of Union Trades and left governmental party (PD) to these new rules? A stale habit, the Minister of welfare Fornero said, the conservative attitude of those who only want to defend old privileges. After all is not so difficult to understand: the God called Market is just asking some sacrifice and to appear before Him everything Monti needs are Italian workers scalps and, why not, Trade Unions scalps too. (I romantically like to think that the Parliament still counts and always remembering that “Italy is a democratic Republic founded on labour” – Constitution of the Italian Republic art.1 – some change to this reform will be possible in the months coming)